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Cyber Wars
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Cyber Wars

by Charles Arthur
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate
248 pages
6h 19m
English
Kogan Page
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06

‘It is time to pay’

Ransomware

I gave talks about it, and I said hackers – they do the hacking just to get some glory, get some bragging rights, you know? Well, imagine when it becomes a tool for a new industry.

MOTI YUNG

Even in a crowded field, Joseph Popp was a very peculiar hacker. Having studied biology at Harvard, he studied hamadryas baboons in Africa for 15 years and opened a butterfly sanctuary in New York. In 2000 he self-published a book called Popular Evolution which insisted that humanity’s only reason for existing was ‘maximizing reproductive success’.

All this from a man who had once taken to wearing a cardboard box on his head while awaiting trial in the UK for his hacking exploits in 1989.

Popp’s hacking wasn’t the usual ...

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